The Cuentos de Mi Vida Multilingual Storysharing Project
The Cuentos de Mi Vida Storysharing Project is an ongoing collaboration between Hasty Elementary School in Cherokee County and the TESOL Program in the Department of Inclusive Education at Kennesaw State University. Directed by Dr. Linda Shuford Evans, the purposes of the project are to promote multilingualism and multiliteracies, engage emergent bilingual students in meaningful and productive literacy experiences, strengthen home-school partnerships, provide future teachers with authentic experiences with linguistically and culturally diverse learners, highlight the strengths of all community members, and engage students and future teachers as researchers. The project uses a variety of methods including conferencing, photography and multimedia to showcase the students' work. The culminating event each semester is a visit by the students to the university.
Linda has put together a team of Hasty teachers, KSU faculty, and KSU student volunteers to work with 5th grade students in the ESOL classes at Hasty as they write about and share different types of personal stories. Beginning in Spring 2013, the project started with 14 Hasty students, 3 volunteers from EDUC 2120, and one partner ESOL teacher at Hasty--Mr. Mark Thompson. The focus of the project was on creating oral histories of family members--Cuentos de Mi Familia (Stories of My Family). In Fall 2013, the focus broadened to include personal stories from the students' lives--Cuentos de Mi Vida.
By spring 2015, the project had grown to 36 Hasty students, 7 EDUC 2120 volunteers, a TESOL MEd student teacher/GRA, and 2 partner ESOL teachers--Mr. Mark Thompson and Ms. Abby Hernandez. We expanded from print stories into digital stories, which the students shared with KSU faculty, staff, and students when they visited the KSU campus in May 2015.
The project underwent a major expansion in the 2016-17 academic year. The four major components include Cuentos Mornings, Cuentos Sábado, Cuentos Padres/Parents, and Cuentos Guías/Mentors. This framework is being piloted in Spring 2017.
The Cuentos de Mi Vida project is part of CIELO (Collaboration for the Internationalization of Educators, Learners, and Organizations), a multi-college collaboration to promote global/local initiatives at all levels. Linda is a co-founder of CIELO, along with April Munson, College of the Arts, and Iván Jorrín Abellán, Bagwell College of Education.
The Cuentos de Mi Vida Multilingual Storysharing Project
The Cuentos de Mi Vida Storysharing Project is an ongoing collaboration between Hasty Elementary School in Cherokee County and the TESOL Program in the Department of Inclusive Education at Kennesaw State University. Directed by Dr. Linda Shuford Evans, the purposes of the project are to promote multilingualism and multiliteracies, engage emergent bilingual students in meaningful and productive literacy experiences, strengthen home-school partnerships, provide future teachers with authentic experiences with linguistically and culturally diverse learners, highlight the strengths of all community members, and engage students and future teachers as researchers. The project uses a variety of methods including conferencing, photography and multimedia to showcase the students' work. The culminating event each semester is a visit by the students to the university.
Linda has put together a team of Hasty teachers, KSU faculty, and KSU student volunteers to work with 5th grade students in the ESOL classes at Hasty as they write about and share different types of personal stories. Beginning in Spring 2013, the project started with 14 Hasty students, 3 volunteers from EDUC 2120, and one partner ESOL teacher at Hasty--Mr. Mark Thompson. The focus of the project was on creating oral histories of family members--Cuentos de Mi Familia (Stories of My Family). In Fall 2013, the focus broadened to include personal stories from the students' lives--Cuentos de Mi Vida.
By spring 2015, the project had grown to 36 Hasty students, 7 EDUC 2120 volunteers, a TESOL MEd student teacher/GRA, and 2 partner ESOL teachers--Mr. Mark Thompson and Ms. Abby Hernandez. We expanded from print stories into digital stories, which the students shared with KSU faculty, staff, and students when they visited the KSU campus in May 2015.
The project underwent a major expansion in the 2016-17 academic year. The four major components include Cuentos Mornings, Cuentos Sábado, Cuentos Padres/Parents, and Cuentos Guías/Mentors. This framework is being piloted in Spring 2017.
The Cuentos de Mi Vida project is part of CIELO (Collaboration for the Internationalization of Educators, Learners, and Organizations), a multi-college collaboration to promote global/local initiatives at all levels. Linda is a co-founder of CIELO, along with April Munson, College of the Arts, and Iván Jorrín Abellán, Bagwell College of Education.
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